Author's note: Please be aware that I own ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, everything, except my character(s) I place in here, belongs to the wonderful Lady J.K. Rowling. This is a Sirius Black/OC Fanfiction, or at least it will get to that point. I do have terrible spelling sometimes, but I do my best. However, if I misspell something that I have not caught I do appreciate having a correction mentioned. But I love reading Fanfiction's from here, and I hope I can bring others the same joys they have brought me, I figured it was time I give it a shot.

This WAS, my FIRST Fanfiction that I had the courage enough to put up for all to read. I started small and did my best to update as soon, and as much, as I could. I know tend to forget things so try to have some patience, even though I sometimes fail at having some myself. *cough, cough*Please Enjoy the story, for the pages have yet to turn for new, or returning, readers of journeys untold. Also, please be aware that this story is 100% mine. This is a work of mine that I did under a different account of fanfiction under the username Nattie8516 and now shares the same username under this Fanfiction site as well. So rest assured, I am the same person and same owner of this work and other's I shall be posting on this new site as well.

Chapter 25

Throughout the whole day Emma tried getting Lily and James to herself, to get them out of the house without Peter knowing it, but he hadn't let any of them out of his sight. He had even gone as far as asking Lily if he could hold Harry for a bit, smiled at the smiling and bouncy boy then flashed a grin to Emma when the parents had turned their backs on them, thinking nothing of it.

Emma had no way of getting the couple alone, even trying to write a note to them, only to have Peter walked up behind her and swiped the note, reading it out loud like it was a longing love letter to her soon to be husband, then grin wickedly once Lily and James would giggle and turn back to Harry and play with him and talk about baby names for their next child, telling Harry he was going to be a big brother. Emma's stomach had fallen and nearly lurched at the same time thinking that it was probably never going to happen without lives lost. Peter wasn't letting any of them out of his sight, he wasn't giving Emma a chance to warn the family. He had no idea what had come over her, no idea what had possessed him to grin constantly at the fact he was betraying them. maybe it was the face he saw the fear sparking in her eyes, that he was the one who had surprised them this turn around. A twist in fate and personality.

Late night had finally fallen, and Peter had disappeared.

This was Emma's chance! Rushing to Harry's bedroom where Lily and James were putting the baby boy to bed. James was already set for bed, though Lily was still in her leggings and long-sleeved green shirt, "Pack him up, hurry. We have to leave, now. Peter's-" Emma hadn't the chance to finish as the front door was heard opening, she had locked it herself in a hast without a charm, due to not having her wand handy to get the family out of the house as fast as she could, but she quickly realized her mistake.

James grabbed her arms, looking out of the bedroom then back to Emma with a whisper, "What's the matter?"

"Emma, you're scaring us," Lily said, her soft voice shaken, and she should be, because someone was inside the house with Peter Pettigrew nowhere to be found.

Rushing back into the room Emma flattened herself against the wall pulling James back in with her and held a single figure to her lips, "We don't have time for this. James, where's your wand?" Emma whispered, her eyes filled with panicking tears, her body was shaking. Emma didn't know what to do. Peter had betrayed them, and Sirius was nowhere near them and wouldn't be able to get there in time.

James reached for the pocket of his house robe, realizing it wasn't there he closed his eyes with a deep sigh of dread, "It's downstairs, I left it in the lounge by accident, damn... Where's Peter?"

"James, Peter's the traitor we've been looking for. I hadn't realized it until today, but I couldn't get either of you alone because you two stayed within inches of each other and Peter was right there in ear shot, I wanted to try to get some kind of word to you, but I wanted it to be from under his damned nose. My wand was up in my room and now I can't find it. the damn rat likely has it."

"Oh Merlin, Peter? But, why -"

"It doesn't matter! W-we need to get Harry out of here," Emma fumed with panic, one of hers' and James's best friend had betrayed them.

Emma kept a hidden watch out the door as James rushed around looking for any way for them to get out from Harry's room, there was none. "Damn it,"

Lily picked up their son, wrapped a blanket around him to keep him warm as James moved to walk down the stairs first. In a panic Emma quickly stopped him, "Harry needs both his parents James."

"And if we don't make it, he'll need his Aunt-" Lily whispered between the two. Raising a hand up to silence Lily, James sighed sadly, because an idea had hit him. Emma was smaller, faster than him, she could dodge a cure or charm faster than anyone. She had her own technique with duels, incorporating combat with dueling and had disarmed himself and Sirius multiple times, barely Remus could stand a chance against her in a magical duel. "No Lily. I hate the idea, but she's smaller than me, faster." Looking from his wife, he grabbed Emma's arm in a tight grip, "My wand is on the table next to the armchair, find it, use it by any means necessary... Just stay alive." With a nod, Emma moved down first. Finding nothing she continued down the

Emma let out a silent breath of relief when she found nothing and moved along. Hope swelled up through her when her eyes landed on James's wand sitting right where he'd said it was, only problem was, a cloaked figure was standing mere feet from the table, wand drawn at her. 'Oh shit!'

A flash of green, a silent killing curse, flew at her and instincts took over. Emma dropped and rolled towards the table, heading for her brother-in-law's wand, but luck was not on her side that night.

A curse flew at her, thankfully it hadn't hit her, but unluckily, the spell had indeed hit both the table and James' wand and were reduced to nothing but dust. The blast sent Emma back, knocking her head off the bookshelves corner leaving a small, yet nasty, gash to split open on her left temple.

"Emma!" Lily screamed for her sister.

Emma's ears rang, fear running through both sisters. One thinking her baby sister had just been killed and the other thinking her sister and nephew were soon to be murdered, "Lil," but Emma's voice was choked, her tone was barely above a grunted whisper.

"FOX!"

Emma tried her voice again, but once again it had failed her, "No, Jamie… run…" her ears continued to ring. Emma could hear James rushing down the stairs, 'JAMES!' But the words wouldn't leave her mouth, her voice had finally given out. Her throat was clogged by whimpers of dread, eyes fogging with near shedding tears.

"Lily, Run!" James screamed. "James?!"

Forcing her body to move, a flash of green lit the dark house from the stairs and a heavy thud sounded. Emma knew instantly a body had fallen against the steps, tears fell over her eyes as she rounded the corner and moved up the steps finding James dead, his eyes wide open.

"JAMES!"

She heard her sister's screams for her husband. Emma's body moved all its own, rushing the rest of the way up into the upstairs hall, tears running down her face, she had to get to her sister and nephew. "LILY!" Emma rushed into the room and did the only thing she could do. She tackled the figure, knocking their wand a bit away from them, "Lily, run!"

And Lily did just that.

Emma may have been wandless, but she was never unarmed, she had her body and she'd use it.

With tears running down her face, Lily held her son close to her and rushed down the stairs passed James's body, fear rushed through her as she ran out one of the house doors, only to meet smoke circling the house. They were trapped.

Emma continued fighting against the figure, thinking she knew very well who it was. Either way Emma was determined to keep him away from her sister and nephew. "Over my dead body, Wormtail!" She screamed just as the figure's hood had fallen from his face.

The identity which was now revealed left her stomach dropping with terror.

"Gladly!" he shouted. In her time of distraction he flipped them, pinning Emma down, a wide grin and psychotically wild look burning in his deep brown eyes, they held a glazing red that shimmered through them, blood lust.

Emma froze for a few mere seconds, she barely had time to react when he'd rushed from her and towards the staircase after Lily and Harry with Emma chasing after him, his wand back in hand.

Lily had no escape from the home in Godric's Hollow. She barely managed to get back inside without getting hit by the several curses that the Death Eaters had tossed at her and Harry. Using her body to guard him from any of the curses, thankfully not being hit by any of them herself. The poor boy was crying from being so scared that Lily feared he may pass out as he began hiccuping from the amount of screaming cry's he was going through. Lily only had one other hope, her own wand was up in hers and James's room on the nightstand. She ran back towards the stairs only to have a small body slam into her, pulling her and Harry in a different direction, away from her wand's direction just as Voldemort tossed curse after curse as he chased them, "This way, hurry!"

His malicious laughter echoed through the whole house sending fearful shivers through the two women as they ran for their lives. Lily pulled her sister towards the living room back near the stairs in hope to get to her wand, "Emma, my wand. It's in the bedroom."

"We'll get there- AH!" a curse narrowly missed Emma.

This was no longer a "Get in and kill then leave to celebrate". No, not at all. This was now a game of cat and mouse to him, and they were the mice.

"I don't believe I've ever had this much fun before! I'll definitely remember this night," he laughed.

Emma glared, still fearful but she had, for some reason, still had it in her to make a snide remark, "Gee, how wonderful, I suppose we should be honored then if you'll remember us." She snapped at him.

His eyes glared heatedly at her, a wide sadistic grin as he continued to eye the young Evans, "You, I'll definitely remember." Neither sister liked the way he'd said that, nor the way he eyed Emma.

'Gross,' Emma thought to herself, her eyes caught the small entryway between the Living room and the hallway that led towards the staircase. It was completely left unguarded. Emma slowly backed Lily and Harry in the direction, keeping herself between Voldemort and her family.

Lily, catching on to what Emma was thinking waited until they were close enough, grabbed Emma's arm and dashed into the hall and up the steps with a strong grip on Emma's hand. Lily had panicked when she felt Emma's hand ripped from her grasp. Turning to see if she was alright her eyes widened with dread for her sister. Emma struggled with Voldemort, attempting to get his wand from him. "Emma!"

Emma had a grip on Voldemort's wand hand with as much of a strong grip as she could, directing the curses away from Lily and Harry as a few curses flew from his wand.

Lily ducking to avoid them with success, "Will-"

"RUN!" Emma just needed to try to spare Lily a few more seconds to get to her wand.

Lily had been so close to the nightstand she could taste life, and victory for her son's life, only for it to be viciously ripped away as the room was assaulted by curses, destroying the room. The bed in ruins and the nightstand, her wand likely lost in the derby.

Neither sister saw the next scene coming.

Voldemort roared in a rage, grabbed Emma by the back of her hair and disappeared up in smoke, flying himself and Emma, tightly gripped in his grasp, through the house, herding Lily and Harry back into the Nursery. He'd finally had enough. Shoving his wand through Emma's abdomen, through the very scar she had gotten from Avery her third year.

The pain that ripped through her tore a painful gasped shout from the younger sister, and a scream of horror from the elder as she watched, as the Dark Wizard roared with gleaming delight.

"AVADA KEDAVARA!"

Lily moved herself in front of Harry, "HARRY!"

Emma never saw the curse rebound, never felt it hit her, nor Voldemort. She never felt the tingle at the crest of her left shoulder.

Voldemort's wand was abandoned and left embedded in her abdomen. The end poking out just enough the curse hadn't taken her upon it being cast, poking out from her back as she hit the floor. The Dark Lord was no longer there, fleeing in a swirl of smoke, barely alive and screaming in pain. Emma hadn't heard a thing, no crying Harry, no frantic Lily. Nothing as she watched the room spin, into darkness.

The Death Eaters cleared away when they sensed their Dark Lord's presence vanish.

Wormtail rushed inside to see the slaughterhouse and panicked when he found the bodies. Reality sank in at what he had been a part of as he found a wailing Harry in a fit of tears as he looked at the bodies of the young Potter's mother and Aunt. He thought they were all dead, he didn't realize that as he removed Voldemort's wand from Emma's body that she was still, barely, alive as he ran from the home, tears streaming down his face. 'WHAT HAVE I DONE!'

It would be a few hours before the bodies were found, sadly by none other than Severus Snape. He'd panicked after he'd seen the state of the house, feared the worst when he found James, destroyed once his eyes found Lily and Emma. He'd held Lily, screamed to the skies as he cried into her.

When he'd heard from Lily he wasn't going to go, even if he wanted to see her and Emma. Now he wished he had. He'd only come to Godric's Hollow because he was informed Voldemort was planning an attack on them sometime soon, that he knew where they were, and Severus wanted to warn them. He'd told Dumbledore as soon as he heard.

A loud noise came suddenly, fearful it was Death Eaters, Severus left in a hurry, not looking twice at Harry or Emma as Sirius and Hagrid rushed in.

Hagrid had to catch himself on the wall at the sight before him, the tears quickly welled up in his eyes and fell with painful wails.

Sirius took in the scene, his breath too painful to take in as he fell onto his knees, barely able to get himself to Emma's body and pulled her into his arms and screamed.

Harry began his fit all over again, he'd been alone for hours, with his mother's dead body in front of him, his father down on the stairs and his Aunt possibly dead with his Godfather screaming over her. He'd latched onto Hagrid who had picked up the fitting infant and tried shushing him, "First the Prewett broth'rs, now this. What 'appened here, Sirius?"

"Hagrid? She has a pulse. She has a pulse!" Sirius panicked. Pulling his button up shirt off himself, he pressed it to the wound, "Get Harry out of here!" Hagrid was so beside himself he didn't know what to do, "But how? I got 'ere via Dumbledore, Sirius." Hagrid clarified. He had no way of transportation.

"Take my bike, get Harry to the hospital, I'll take Emma. Go!"

They split up, Sirius disapparated before Hagrid had any time to say a word. Sighing with a sad huff as he looked at the now sleeping baby, he grabbed the blanket and stuffed bear in the crib and left, taking Harry to St. Mungos.

Upon his arrival to St. Mungos' Emma was rushed into surgery in a critical condition, barely alive. Knowing he couldn't do anything he sat down and waited for Hagrid to get there and watched him hand his Godson off to the nurses while he informed them that his Aunt was Emma Evans and should be here by now. They'd simply nodded and took him for a checkup, "Hagrid, do you know what happened?"

"Na, I only know what Dumbledore told me to do. An' that was to gather up Harry and take him to this address in London if anythin' were ta 'appen to them." Hagrid said handing Sirius the address slip, "I guess that's Lily's other sister. I don' know why he'd send the little one there with Muggles but that's what he'd told me ta do."

"He's not going to that woman! Emma is his legal guardian and so am I as his Godfather." Sirius was filling with so much rage, he'd lost Lily and James, he may even lose Emma, he was not going to lose Harry to that long-necked Giraffe of a woman that had a snob stick up her arse 24/7 and her nose up in the air with a nasty face that was always scrunched up as if she could smell the pollution in the air.

"Sirius, this is the las' thing I wanna do is take that lit'le boy away from yeh and Rose, but I am doin' as Dumbledore tol' me ta do. He wouldn't 'ave done this had he not had a reason. I'm sure you'll get Harry back once Emma's bet'er"

With that as the final say, Sirius sighed. Hagrid was right, with Emma half dead in surgery and him in an emotional downward spiral, Sirius was in no condition to begin caring for Harry, whether he liked it or not. But he was going to do a few things before they got him back. Wormtail had betrayed them and for that Sirius was going to slaughter him, like Voldemort had his family. "Fine, you can use my motorbike... I'll uh, I'll be back after I'm better fit to care for Harry, but I'll be in to see him soon. I have some things I need to finish."

He was now in search of Peter Pettigrew.

It had taken him a couple days to track him, and he was overjoyed when he saw the fear in his eyes, "Sirius-"

"You, traitorous rat! You murdered James and Lily, you betrayed us all, you lead me against Remus as a diversion. I'm taking you in, if I don't kill you first. Drop your wand, Peter... I said drop it!" In Sirius's rage he hadn't noticed that as Peter let his wand drop to the ground he began screaming loudly in full view and ear shot of the Muggles how Sirius had betrayed the Potters and Emma then swiftly used Voldemort's wand he had in his personal position, cast a curse at him and made a run for it into a busy street of England fearful Sirius would either apprehend him or kill him. Peter had caused an explosion in the streets killing several people and knocking the Auror out, vanishing into the night. He'd turned into a rat after dropping the freshly cut off finger and a scream of pain.

With security rushing about and rumors flying around about Sirius Black's betrayal and then the heavy bounty on him if caught dead or alive, they had no idea he was currently lying unconscious in the streets.

Peter had sneaked into Emma's hospital room and began casting a spell against her memory of him ever being at the safe house. However, he was cut short when the door handle began jiggling, "What's this, the doors locked? Oh Lord, ARTHUR! THE DOORS' LOCKED! SOMEONE'S IN HER ROOM! Emma WAKE UP! OPEN THIS DOOR NOW! I DON'T CARE IF I'M NOT A BLOOD RELATIVE OPEN THIS DAMN DOOR OR I'LL BLOW IT OUT!" The woman screamed in a panic, multiple steps rushed from outside the door as he quickly opened the third-floor window, changed back into a rat and scurried out just as the door blew open.

Molly rushed to the young woman's side checking her as a doctor and nurse rushed in to check her themselves, "She's alright, but whoever it was used a charm on her memory. We can't be sure what was erased or how far they got until she wakes up." The Doctor stated.

"And when will that be? When will she wake up?" Mellena asked in panic, Remus squeezed her arms from behind her, a form of self-comfort and to give her some form of comfort also as he breathed heavily, tears staining his pale face. Their hearts fell and filled with more panic as the doctor sighed sadly.

The Doctor sighed sadly as he glanced back over to his comatose patient before looking back to the friends and family, "Honestly, she'll be lucky if she does wake up. In the end of this, it's really up to her."

***Thank you for the Reviews! You are all so wonderful and unimaginably encouraging! I do plan on having more for you all to read! Thank you all for keeping me going, I know if I can finish this, then I can finish just about anything, on here and in life! THANK YOU!*** before anyone asks, yes, I did have 26 Chapters, HOWEVER, I compacted the chapters and now have 25 Chapters. So, no, there are no chapter's missing. Just in case anyone got confused and curious.

"The story now comes to a close, a prophecy that started it all. Yet, there's always more to one's life than an ending, is that of a beginning to a new story to come to a final point."-quote by Nattie8516 :)